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A Bumpy Start for Fundamental Classification Review

The Fundamental Classification Guidance Review is the Obama Administration’s most ambitious effort to confront the problem of overclassification. It requires each agency that classifies information to conduct a detailed review…

01.18.11 | 3 min read
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JASONs Ponder Military Role in Gene Research

The technology for sequencing human DNA is advancing so rapidly and the cost is dropping so quickly that the number of individuals whose DNA has been mapped is expected to…

01.13.11 | 3 min read
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DoD Agencies Have Prohibited Waterboarding, IG Says

Defense agencies have complied with a recommendation to prohibit the use of military survival training techniques — such as waterboarding — in prisoner interrogation, the DoD inspector general confirmed in…

01.10.11 | 2 min read
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Air Force SAP Policy Limits Congressional Contacts

The Air Force issued updated guidance (pdf) last week concerning its highly classified special access programs, including new language prohibiting unauthorized communications with Congress. Special access programs (SAPs) involve access…

01.04.11 | 1 min read
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Leaks to AIPAC Said to be “Common”

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby organization, has often received and distributed confidential government information, including classified materials, asserted former AIPAC official Steven J. Rosen in…

01.03.11 | 2 min read
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